Carlos Fuentes and the New Mexican Narrative

This seminar will focus on close-readings and conceptualization of Fuentes' innovative works of fiction and main ideas on Mexico and its cultural history. We will discuss a selection of his short-stories, novels and essays, moving from the political to the Gothic, from history to the Baroque. We will follow with new Mexican fiction writers who renew and debate Fuentes practices and ideas. Among them, Carmen Boullosa, Jorge Volpi, Pedro Ángel Palou, Cristina Rivera Garza and Yuri Herrera. The seminar will be in Spanish, and is limited to 40 students.